Tag: lifestyle

Sometimes, you have to admit you were wrong. Sometimes that can be quite hard to do, sometimes it means you have to swallow your pride and face up to it. Sometimes, however, you can be happy to be wrong. I am happy to admit I was wrong. If you have read a few of my… Read more

With this post, I’m going to hit a small milestone: 150 posts. A question I got, and get, quite a lot is: how is there so much you can write about training? The answer is somewhat related to the amount of bullshit printed by mainstream fitness media: if Men’s Health magazine can basically write the… Read more

I was speaking recently to someone about the concept of progress, or progression. The notion of progress is evocative, and understandably so: it speaks to the part of everyone that wants to be better or improve, and in that way it’s closely connected to the idea of realising your dreams. But the actual tangible process… Read more

I think everyone should write. Or type. It doesn’t necessarily need to be something that others would find worth reading, although that’s obviously a positive, it could just be a list, or a few lines, or just some disjointed jottings on your laptop or a piece of paper you have next to your bed. I… Read more

The subject of nutrition is confusing, mainly because you seem to get a lot of differing opinions of what, how much and when depending on what you read or hear. The diet/nutrition industry is also worth big bucks, which automatically means there are plenty of shysters out there who will swear that black is white… Read more

Bear with me for this. I know this is a training blog, not a life-coaching seminar but I want to share some beliefs I have that apply equally to life as much as they do to training, in my humble opinion. Besides if this was part of a life-coaching seminar you’d be paying a lot… Read more

I’ve got good news and bad news for you. If you’ve been training for a while, it might not actually be news for you, but it might be something you don’t want to hear. It’s something that has taken me a long time to realise and accept. I’ve been in denial about it for a… Read more

It’s obviously no secret that Bruce Lee holds a pretty high status not just among martial arts aficionados but millions of people the world over, based largely on his near-mythic athletic exploits. I have just started to read more into him , and while there seems to be a fair amount of the expected hubris… Read more

As human beings, we like to think that we’re special. Not just in an individual way but collectively as a species living on planet earth we are definitely unique when we look at every other living thing around us. We are special because we are by far the most intelligent organic things that have ever… Read more

Strength-to-weight ratio refers to the amount of weight you can lift proportional to your bodyweight. Much like calling someone the best ‘pound-for-pound’ boxer it means that despite the myriad different body types, shapes and sizes we can still have a meaningful method for comparing each others strength. So for example the heaviest deadlift ever is… Read more